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Excavations at Ai Khanoum on the northern border of modern Afghanistan have produced great quantities of Greek inscriptions and even the remnants of a philosophical treatise originally on papyrus. One of the most interesting is the base of a dedication by one Klearchos, perhaps the known student of Aristotle, that records his bringing to this new Greek city, Alexandria on the Oxus, the traditional maxims from the shrine of Apollo at Delphi ..
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Their (the Greeks)encounters with foreign were not coloured by the belief that such people's religion was false and inferior, the belief that thinges Christians, Muslims, Hindus or atheist nowadays
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I wish I was here, or I wish I was there...' In our age of global travel we are all potential heirs to the simile of Hera's flight.
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Those who idealize the past tend not to understand it: restoration kills it with kindness.
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Alexander was recognized as a son of Zeus after his visit.
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It was the Delphi of the Greek East and as a Hellene, not as Pharaoh, Alexander would be curious...
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Supported the belief that he was the Greek gos Zeus's son.
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